Last week, the go-live for the .tel extension started. From then on, everyone who wishes to do so, can register a name under this domain. Only 36 hours after the launch of the go-live, 100,000 .tel names were registered. As mentioned before, a .tel name offers you the possibility to centralize all your contact information […]
Read more >The Brazilian registry has announced the release of the .net.br extension. In order to guarantee a smooth launch, there will be a 6 month sunrise period. During this period, owners of a .com.br name can register this name under the .net.br extension. There’s one restriction, the .com.br name needs to be registered before April 6th […]
Read more >The .be registry (DNS.be) has already given more information about the actions and measures they’re taking to combat the Conficker C virus. Currently they’re checking every .be name that could be generated by the virus. If one of those names is already registered, they sent an e-mail to the .be registrar who registered those names […]
Read more >Several registries are taking measures against the Conficker C virus. The virus is programmed so that it will try to contact his creator through constantly changing domain names under 110 ccTLD’s (country code Top Level Domains). With the previous version of the virus we were talking about 250 domain names per day, with new C […]
Read more >The go-live period of .tel names starts tomorrow. From then on, anyone who wishes to do so, can register a name under this extension. During the go-live, names need to be registered for at least one year and the first come, first served principle will be applied. A .tel name offers you the chance to […]
Read more >A while ago, we already posted an article on this site about the new policy the .be registry introduced against cybersquatting. This seems to be really necessary because cybersquatting is becoming a fast growing problem. In 2008 WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) received 8% more complaints about cybersquatting compared to 2007. Cybersquatting means that someone […]
Read more >Tomorrow the landrush for the .co.nl starts. This period ends on March 31st. During this period, everyone who wishes to do so, can register a .co.nl name. During this period, applications will be treated on a best place, first served basis. This means that the application that appears first on our list, will also be […]
Read more >A while ago the Dutchmen, Joost Zuurbier, licensed the rigths for the .tk extension, which means he can sell this extension. Normally, .tk is the extension for Tokelau, a small island near Australia. But Zuurbier gave this extension another destination. He’s offering .tk names in Turkey, claiming this is a better country extension than the […]
Read more >A while ago we already posted on this site that .mobi was considering to release 1 and 2 character domain names. A few days ago, they did give away the first 2 character domain name. The name they awarded was 53.mobi and was given to the Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati. With Fifth Third Mobile […]
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